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The history is not an optional morning in the itinerary. How to plan a South Africa trip that takes it seriously, and why sequencing matters.

Museum in Kenya.

Great Zimbabwe, Lalibela, Timbuktu, Aksum. The sites are not obscure. What is worth knowing is how hard some scholarship worked to explain them away.

Museum in Nairobi, Kenya.

There is no such thing as African food. There are Ethiopian, Senegalese, Cape Malay and Swahili coast cuisines, and the difference is the point.

What each approach actually gives you and costs you, including the cases where a guided tour is the wrong choice, which our own commercial interest would prefer we skipped.

Tourist village in Langata, Nairobi.

Routing, connections and jet lag: arriving in a state to enjoy the first day rather than sleep through it.

Kenyan game park.

A checklist to take to any operator, including the one that publishes this. The questions that separate a well-run company from a well-marketed one.

History Museum in Rabai, Kenya.

National Reserve in Narok County, Kenya.

Forest in Kenya.

Island of the Lamu Archipelago of Kenya.